APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH
Sunday, April 16th, 3:30 p.m.
Susan Ito
THE STORY BEHIND THE IMAGE
Note: We will continue monthly in-person meetings at the Well, on Albion Street between The Great Put On and the Garden Bakery in Mendocino.
If you cannot be with us in person, try joining us for our first attempt at live streaming our meeting on Facebook. To watch the meeting on Facebook Live, please join WMC's new Facebook Account--also titled Writers of the Mendocino Coast. If the old account comes up first (no activity since 2020), scroll down until you find the WMC account with art from this year's anthology cover.
Writing From Photos, please bring photos, pen, and pad (We have to write on our laps) for prompts.
In this interactive workshop, Susan Ito will take you on a narrative journey through and beyond your most meaningful, mysterious, evocative and precious photo images. Using photographic images as prompts, we will explore the stories that lie beyond the frame. Bring 4-6 personal photos that mean something to you - family, individual, landscape, as well as writing materials (keyboard or notebook/pen).
Susan Ito co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hyphen, Hip Mama, Catapult, The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US. She teaches at the Writers Grotto, Mills College and Bay Path University. Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater. Her memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, is forthcoming from the Ohio State University Press in fall 2023.
Susan Ito
THE STORY BEHIND THE IMAGE
Note: We will continue monthly in-person meetings at the Well, on Albion Street between The Great Put On and the Garden Bakery in Mendocino.
If you cannot be with us in person, try joining us for our first attempt at live streaming our meeting on Facebook. To watch the meeting on Facebook Live, please join WMC's new Facebook Account--also titled Writers of the Mendocino Coast. If the old account comes up first (no activity since 2020), scroll down until you find the WMC account with art from this year's anthology cover.
Writing From Photos, please bring photos, pen, and pad (We have to write on our laps) for prompts.
In this interactive workshop, Susan Ito will take you on a narrative journey through and beyond your most meaningful, mysterious, evocative and precious photo images. Using photographic images as prompts, we will explore the stories that lie beyond the frame. Bring 4-6 personal photos that mean something to you - family, individual, landscape, as well as writing materials (keyboard or notebook/pen).
Susan Ito co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hyphen, Hip Mama, Catapult, The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US. She teaches at the Writers Grotto, Mills College and Bay Path University. Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater. Her memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, is forthcoming from the Ohio State University Press in fall 2023.
Writers of the Mendocino Coast has a new Facebook page. We hope to Facebook Live our in-person meetings. People who cannot attend will be able to tune in. Please go to Log into Facebook to Like and Follow WMC.
JOIN US FOR EARTH DAY
Saturday, April 22, 1:00 - 5:00, at the Learning Garden, Fort Bragg High School.
WMC will be hosting a booth at this annual event. We'll have a short writing activity for children and a display of member books. If you want your book to be displayed, send an email to watkins.norma@gmail.com. The first twenty books will be accepted.
Saturday, April 22, 1:00 - 5:00, at the Learning Garden, Fort Bragg High School.
WMC will be hosting a booth at this annual event. We'll have a short writing activity for children and a display of member books. If you want your book to be displayed, send an email to watkins.norma@gmail.com. The first twenty books will be accepted.
Sunday, May 21, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
SmatchUp
Under the theme of "About the Man Next Door," one writer starts a story or poem and another finishes, with creative (and sometimes hilarious) results. Authors are paired anonymously, not to be revealed until this meeting. Let the fun begin!
SmatchUp
Under the theme of "About the Man Next Door," one writer starts a story or poem and another finishes, with creative (and sometimes hilarious) results. Authors are paired anonymously, not to be revealed until this meeting. Let the fun begin!
Recordings of Previous Zoom Meetings. Go to the YouTube channel for all the videos.
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The 2023 Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference, August 3 - 5, is accepting registrations through June 30th. Morning workshops include memoir, mysteries, screenplays, novels, middle grade/young adults, short fiction, poetry, speculative fiction, nonfiction, and emerging writers (mcwc.org).
The CWC website includes a calendar of monthly meetings for all state branches. Any of our members can attend the meetings of any other branch, for free or for the same fee as their membership pays. To view their meeting topics (many are still on Zoom), click on https://calwriters.org/events/.
HAVE A MINUTE?
See the current schedule. Mendocino Theatre Company's One-Minute Radio Theatre is a two-minute spot broadcast bi-weekly on KZYX. Collaborate by submitting an original one-minute play. All voices to be heard! Plays can be in English or Spanish. No fee for submission nor cash award if your play is chosen; all actors and directors give their time free of charge. Submit your one-minute play* (app. 150-170 words, for 1-3 actors) in the body of an email (no attachments) to mtc@mcn.org with the subject MTC One-Minute Play: [Title of your play]. Include your full name, contact information, and a brief, 50-word bio. You may submit as many one-minute plays as you wish, but only one submission per email, please. *Play may not contain the "seven dirty words" prohibited by the FCC. Play must be totally original and the author's work. Listen now: i am from the ocean by windflower Townley I Could Not Stop for Covid by Holly Tannen Something New & Murder She Wrote by Philip Zwerling Point Arena Third Thursday Poetry and Jazz
In person and Zoom, 6-8 p.m. 35590 Verdant View, Sea Ranch, Gualala blake@snakelyone.com Rhythm Running River (Poetry) on KZYX&Z
Alternate Sundays 3-5 p.m. Dan Roberts: outfarpress@saber.net Cartwheels on the Sky ~ Poets, Poems & Discovery
Saturdays 7-7:30 KGUA - FM Gualala FORT BRAGG LIBRARY
First Thursdays Open Mic 6-8 p.m. Dan Hess: hessd@co.mendocino.ca.us UKIAH LIBRARY Loba Poetry Series Open Mic, Third Saturdays 3 p.m. Melissa Carr: carrm@mendocinocounty.org Writers Reading Ukiah Last Thursday, 7 p.m Reading, 8 p.m. Open Mic Poetry, Spoken Word, Short Stories, Songs & Expository Prose. M E M B E R N E W S
Writing newly published, receives a nomination or award, or other notable exposure? Please send a short announcement to writersmendocino@gmail.com Elizabeth Vrenios' poem, "Your Last Phone Call," appears in the anthology A Taste of Reality: Poems on Bereavement (www.poetschoice.in).
Fort Bragg's Alleyway Art Project includes poetry from Notty Bumbo ("Artist's Prayer for the Days Ahead," as part of the "Be a Light" mural) and windflower ("Mendocino Botanical Gardens," as part of "The Rhododendron" mural). www.fortbraggalleywayart.org
Ericka Lutz's poem, "In the Redwoods," written in response to Ryan Grossman's Fort Bragg mural "Sunlit Redwood Forest," appears on the Fort Bragg Alleyway Art Project website: https://fortbraggalleywayart.org/sunlit-redwood-forest/ Priscilla Comen published a short piece for Persimmon Tree's Forum ("Speaking of Rights--Our After the Midterm"), Winter 2023 (https://persimmontree.org). She also writes weekly book reviews under "Community Library Notes" for the Mendocino Beacon (mendocinobeacon.com)
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KELLEY HOUSE CALENDAR
Call for Writers There are so many stories yet to tell, and they welcome your voice. Articles are 400 to 700 words and can be paired with photos or illustrations usually discovered in their database of 10,000 images. Call the Kelley House curator, Karen McGrath, at 707/937-5791 or email her at curator@kelleyhousemuseum.org. |
